QWK Format

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 06-14-92 (06:14)             Number: 274
From: RICK SLATER                  Refer#: NONE
  To: SAM WARDEN                    Recvd: NO  
Subj: QWK Format                     Conf: (3) Dr_Debug

Sam,

Just a quick update on the quick packet format (no pun intended):  I do
not find that the .NDX files have Microsoft binary format (MBF) floating
point numbers in them.  Instead, I find a 4 byte integer (long int)
whose value represents the byte offset into the MESSAGES.DAT file for
the corresponding message.  It was really interesting when I first read
the PERSONAL.NDX file as though MBF numbers were involved:  I kept
getting fractional record numbers!  :-)

-- Rick
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